User talk:NatGertler

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Quackers Talk Contributions

01:38, December 1, 2015 (UTC)

Peter Buschang Deletion

Dude you gotta give me 10 minutes to finish writing the article. I just hit submit and was going to add everything. You can't just go on a deleting spree without giving someone a chance. All the sourcing and links are done

About Home's sequel

This may be a true sequel

Lee Ryder

FYI, I'm not sure if you can WP:PROD articles that have been in WP:AfD like you did to Lee Ryder. Though the question of if a successful delete resets WP:PROD eligibility is an interesting corner-case to consider. - GretLomborg (talk) 21:44, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

LGBT

Hi, I wanted to ask you whether you are broadly in favour or LGBT rights or take a socially conservative position? Thanks Contaldo80 (talk) 16:14, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

August 2017

Hello, I'm Me-123567-Me. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Universal Life Church have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Rather than revert to vandalism, put the correct number in. Me-123567-Me (talk) 23:56, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

False claim of vandalism rebutted here. --Nat Gertler (talk) 00:39, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

LA event this Thursday

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Public wealth of cities

Noticed that you put a PROD on Public wealth of cities. I fully agree with this (I requested a speedy delete the last time the article was created), but think that sending the article an official Afd would be wise as the page has been recreated and PRODs are easy to contest. I would do this myself but you seem to be more familiar with the situation and I don't want to botch an argument. Cheers.--SamHolt6 (talk) 15:50, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

While I agree with you in principle, at the moment my life is too full of actual paying work to spend the proper time doing a full proper BEFORE. So I'm taking the easy PROD, rather than tackling the AFD as well as addressing the copyvio concerns. Should that fail, I will take care of the AFD. --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:08, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Zoë Quinn's PGPs

Hi NatGertler,

In the last several months, you've participated in a discussion on Talk:Zoë Quinn about which preferred gender pronouns to use in the article. So I thought I'd give you a heads up that I'm starting a WP:RFC to hopefully resolve this issue! You can find the relevant discussion here.

Regards. --Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 18:27, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Destructive Comments: Withdrawing from Wikipedia

@NatGertler:

I don't know what's going on here. You seem to prey on my contributions and suggest them for speedy deletions. No matter what I do to improve them or which source I deliver. Admittedly I am new to Wikipedia and truly believed that I could contribute to this project. But this experience leaves me truly disillusioned. It appears to me as if some people want to turn (or keep?) Wikipedia into some sort tightly-knit old boys network would decide over everything, maybe not so different to the editorial board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

It seems to me that some people want to shut me down for whatever reason: copyright infringement - unfounded, promotion - unfounded, advertising - unfounded and so on. Well, unfortunately these people have succeeded: I will no longer contribute anything to Wikipedia after this entirely destructive experience.

I believe that this is exactly NOT what Jimmy Wales had in mind when he created Wikipedia. But be it as it may, I'll keep on recommending the sources I deem of high value to my family, friends and fellow students. At least they don't accuse me of promotion or of providing a "neologism that has not gained much traction" when they suddenly understand a term that is new to them.

Enjoy editing & fare well,

Rachel Tan